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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Business Automation Workflow

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Fix the resume behavior in Process Inspector

In our BPM solution, we are using Process Inspector to manage the instance and handle the failed instances. The failed instances are visible in PI and we want to resume the instances from there.But PI is not able to resume all the failed instances...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add bulk task reassign in the portal

The BPM currently allows the reassignment of a single task, but is lacking a bulk task reassign. Customers wanting to reassign multiple tasks.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

A blocklist of MIME types that cannot be uploaded.

BAW is able to configure an allowlist using the <document-attachment-accepted-mime-types> parameter. And, BAW can disable of document upload security by the <disable-document-attachment-accepted-mime-types> parameter.But, There is a lo...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Unify the two validation frameworks in BPM

We are using BPM 8.6.0 and would like to have a tighter coupling of the BPM validation framework, tw.system.coachValidation, together with new client-side validation, bpmext.ui.setValid().Currently, BPM validation framework, tw.system.coachValidat...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

"Go To Designer" button in eclipse which enable Authors to go to last worked item is missing in WEB PD

Authors can not to go to their last opened/worked item (toolkit/PA service)like eclipse. "Go To Designer" button in eclipse which enable Authors to go to last worked item is missing in WEB PD. This impact efficiency of Authors as they have to spen...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW container V2202 formatting timestamp(timezone setup) for Application engine relevant Pods

Client aim to have timezone setup for workspace Pods, workspace/workplace Pods are components of Application Engine. Currently the Application Engine doesn't use ISO format to output the timestamp. By now the AE log time is linux time value instea...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WEB PD does not maintain last open session/page like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab

WEB PD does not maintain last page session like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab. For example : When you click on "back to workflow center" it always go to process app tab even you were in toolkits tabs last time or opened a toolki...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Loading Avatar from LDAP

There is a function to load user information like mail address, job title etc. from LDAP into the user profile. There is no function to also load the Avatar from LDAP.
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request to add Horizonatal configuration to radio button control

for the radio button control there's need to be a configuration option for displaying the buttons in horizontal order.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Disable the administrator's ability to view and edit task data on Instance level

PROCESS INSPECTOR IN PROCESS ADMIN CONSOLE ALLOWS ADMINISTRATORS TO ACCESS and EDIT PROCESS INSTANCE DATAProcess Inspector on the Process Admin Console allows administrators to access and edit instance data on level of process instances and task i...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration